On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:29 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Markus Neteler <[email protected]> wrote: ... >> I wonder if the could additionally allow for a more human readable >> form than input=- like we do for separator=... >> "stdin" isn't much better for many users, any other ideas? >> > I don't see a need for more human readable value of input option. > Considering a user-beginner using GUI dialog, "no default answer policy" > saves him or her from running the module and blocking the GUI* as Martin > says.
Well, advanced users fail, see this email from some hours ago: https://lists.fossgis.de/pipermail/fossgis-talk-liste/2014-June/006618.html (you may guess it from German language) > And advanced user using the real command line probably knows about this > convention and what stdin and standard output are and if not, he or she is > not interested in using input=-. > Option output=- is set by default (or is default implicitly as in r59115, > hopefully everywhere?), so he or she gets standard output which is expected > in both GUI and command line and can set a file if this is what he or she > wants. The m.proj example in its manual was definitely broken. I have fixed it in https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/60783 Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
